1899 - 1934

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• Birth	12 Oct 1899	Alfred,Allegany Co.,New York
  Gender	Male
  Died	30 Jun 1934	Zanesville,Muskingum Co.,Ohio
  Person ID	I121843	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	05 Oct 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Orson W. ROBISON, b. 28 May 1868
  Mother	Mary Belle COTTRELL, b. Abt 1868
  Family ID	F47500	Group Sheet
  Family	Amey Doris VAN HORN, b. 24 Oct 1899, Hopkinton,Washington Co.,Rhode Island
  Married	2 Jun 1922
  Children	1. Theodore Cottrell ROBISON
  Family ID	F47503	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Rural Cemetery 1 NOTE David Vincent Robison was in the Army Reserve at Alfred, NY, butwas not called to active duty during World War I. He graduated from NY College of Ceramics in 1921 as a ceramicengineer. Sometime after hisgraduation, he moved to Zanesville, Ohio andwent to work at the American Encaustic Tile Company. There, heinvented the electric kiln for ceramics and associatedcomponents. The company paid him $1.00/each for his inventionsand made himsuperintendent. David Vincent Robison entered a worldwide contest and waschosenfrom among seven men to have his tiles put in the HollandTunnel. His tiles are still there in the Northern Corridor. When DVR lived in Zanesville,OH, the neighbor, George, had twingrand pianos in his music room. Saturday evenings, sometimes,they would get together and play classical music just for theirown entertainment. Turned out that the neighbors heard them andused to sit out in the front lawn to listen. Soon the wordspread and people from all over came and did the same thing.They could really play! In June, 1934, DVR contracted Scarlet Fever. He died June 30,1934. His death certificate lists the cause of death as acutenephritis - - - kidney failure. His body was transferred toAlfred, NY where he was buried in the Cottrell family plot atAlfred Rural Cemetery.